begin quoting Paul G. Allen as of Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 07:55:31PM -0800: > I've tried both Sun's JDK and IBM's (currently I have IBM's installed). I
I've never tried IBM's JDK -- they're still the big blue bad guys to me -- and I've never had much of a problem with the Sun JDK. > use Mozilla 1.7.5 (I was using 1.4.3, but that didn't work right either). > Everything was fine before I went from RH 9 to RHEL WS . During that > transition, Mozilla was upgraded from whatever RH 9 had to whatever RHEL WS > came with, and of course the JDK that I had installed (IBM 1.4.2) was nuked > and I had to install a new JDK. Ow. I hate those sorts of "upgrades". > I use Mozilla in W2K as well (same laptop). <wince> Can't help you there, I'm afraid. > Under Linux I can run Java applications, I can develop Java applications, I > can compile Java applications and Java applets, but I can't run a Java > applet. Even with the AppletViewer? > Under Windows I can develop, run, and compile Java applications, I > can run a Java applet, but I can't develop or compile a Java applet. Java Er, why would compiling a Java applet be any different? It's the Same Compiler. Just a different application entry-point and delivery mechanism. > plugins for Mozilla either crash the browser completely, or the browser > says I don't have a plugin for application/x-java-vm. > > Has anyone else had problems like this? Did you fix them and how? Yes. Mozilla + Java Applets -> No Go. (This was at work after the admin decided that Gentoo was better than Debian. As I wasn't willing to assume administration duties, I didn't complain TOO much, especially as it gave me a chance to see how well, or not, Yet Another Distro worked without having to do the hard work myself.) Solution: FireFox. -Stewart "Gentoo: Why do I get a python stacktrace for a Java program?" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
